"A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled." -- Plutarch
And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities? - Bishop George Berkeley
Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity. -Bishop George Berkeley
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true." -- Professor Robert Silensky
"Mathematics is like love; a simple idea, but it can get complicated.”
"Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man." ~W. B. Smith
"Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics." ~Dean Schlicter
"How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality? ~Einstein
"I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer, and I take a substantial amount of pride in the accomplishments of my profession." Neil Armstrong 1930 - 2012
“The man who has ceased to learn ought not be allowed to wander around loose.” - M.M. Coady
filled." -- Plutarch
And what are these same evanescent increments?
They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing.
May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities? - Bishop George Berkeley
Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity. -Bishop George Berkeley
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a
million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire
works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we
know this is not true." -- Professor Robert Silensky
"Mathematics is like love; a simple idea, but it can get complicated.”
"Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man." ~W. B. Smith
"Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics." ~Dean Schlicter
"How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience,
is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality? ~Einstein
"I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer, and I take a substantial amount of pride in the accomplishments of my profession."
Neil Armstrong 1930 - 2012
“The man who has ceased to learn ought not be allowed to wander around loose.”
- M.M. Coady